Contributors:

Don WS4E sent us a pointed email. He uses SuperOS and was even able to get his programming software for his talkies. Likes SatScape for satellites in Linux.

Bob K4BB says that you can use MONO for running HRD on Linux. behind on the podcast. And Likes Unetbootin Really likes the quality of the show. Feels the websites need help. Bob had four or five pieces of feedback this time. Thinks the music is a waste.

BTW Colin and Martin at ICQ Podcast are our friends 🙂

Captain Spauldings Blog, He uses Ubuntu and likes the podcast. (Hooray for Captain Spaulding the African explorer)

Donation Mark K. Thanks Mark

Richard says “Join the fun and be a guest co-host”

The Techie Geek gave us a mention. Thanks for the tip on the Sansa Clip Russ

We have appeared again in a comment over at Solder Smoke. Keep spreading the word.

Thanks to the guys at TiTradio podcast for the mention

Hello to Azimuth, Wayne KB7CFD, Don’t fear the badger.

Kent VE4KEH sent us a message about forwarding X11 over SSH using xming

Announcements:

Links and Notes:

xming for windows

putty for windows

Russ talks about Java for a while:

Its cross platform

A little clunkie

Side track to Adobe Air

Cool stuff available

BTW there is a version of Adobe Air for Linux

Now that we have our Java, We need a doughnut 😛

Drats extravaganza:

Terminal for D-Star low speed data on Talkies and Mobile Rigs

Dan KK7DS

Drats.com

It is cross Platform

Written in Python and GTK

Not only the terminal but a repeater too

Windows installer

on Linux you also need a few libraries

Easy to use if you have ever used terminal software

If you haven’t used terminal software before, Still easy to set up to run

Auto QST’s, Preformatted forms, Weather info, APRS, even internet email.

Heard List, APRS data

Session activity log

Ratflector access for testing

The Drats Repeater Proxy:

Very simple

Setup you own repeater at your house

Can be setup for over the air or network operation

Don’t have to setup the ports for your local network while testing

Auto id of repeater

Monitor screen shows connected computers and radios

Sometimes Simplicity is best

Web page has How-to’s, Wiki, Info and mailing list for information about Drats

Ratflector on ports 9000 and 9001 for testing over at the Drats website

Russ says it works on MAC

Check out the website at

Richard Hopes that Drats becomes the standard for D-Star low speed digital

Music:

Gamma Leonis – Bacon, Linux and Tomato (Part I & II)

Jonathan Coulton - Always the Moon

Dropout Year - This Notebook